RACING Southern Horses For Trentham

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29764, 6 March 1962, Page 4

RACING Southern Horses For Trentham

Master Dalmain, one of the South Island’s strongest winning prospects at Trentham on Saturday, will be taken north this evening.

He is engaged in the gilverstream Hack Handicap, of 11 furlongs, on Saturday, end it is planned to run him in the New Zealand St. •Leger Stakes on the second day of the Wellington meeting. The leading jockey, R, J. Skelton, will ride Master Dalmain at Trentham. Master Dalmain has not yet raced over a middle distance. but there was promise of stamina in his runs over less ground. This was evident when he won on the second day of the Dunedin autumn meeting a few hours after Mr J. Y. Scales, of Christchurch, bought him for 2006gns, Mr Scales has since refused a big offer, believed to be 4000gns, for his three-year-old. If Mr Scales had been prepared to do business, Master Dalmain would have gone to Sydney. Uanmai. one of the stars of the Wellington autumn meeting a year ago, will return north this evening for another tilt at rich Trentham races. A year ago he was runnerup to Ursalon in the mile

Thompson Handicap, and then outclassed the stayers over a mile and a half in the President's Handicap on the second day. He was placed as a sprinter on his last campaign at Trentham, in January, but failed at a mile and a half on the final day of the Wellington Cup meeting.

Llanmai's latest start was in the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Midsummer Handicap. He had lightened with his campaigning at Ellerslie and Trentham beforehand, and did not run within a stone of his best form, although he was fourth. He had an easy time for a week or two after that race, and looked bright and fresh when he appeared with Great Sensation in an exhibition gallop at Wingatui last Saturday week. B. J. Anderton will ride Uanmai in his Trentham engagements; also Llanmai’s stablemate Warfare, a winner against the hacks at the Dunedin autumn meeting. The Wanderer, another Anderton mount on Saturday, is another southern galloper booked to travel north this evening.

He earned a start at Trentham with an unlucky second to Bold Venture in the open sprint on the second day of the Dunedin autumn meeting. The Wanderer is eight, but age has not dimmed his speed, and he could ran well over six furlongs in the Railway Handicap this week.